A NSW Police Force civilian employee has been charged after allegedly impersonating a sworn police officer in the state\u2019s north yesterday.
\nYesterday afternoon (Tuesday 10 August 2021), police were notified that a man had allegedly impersonated a police officer and provided inaccurate information to a fast food restaurant concerning COVID-19.
\nFollowing inquiries, the 44-year-old man \u2013 who is attached to a command in the Northern Region \u2013 was arrested and charged with impersonate a police officer and convey false information that a person or property is in danger.
\nHe was granted conditional bail to appear before Maitland Local Court on Wednesday 15 September 2021.
\nHis employment status is under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A NSW Police Force civilian employee has been charged after allegedly impersonating a sworn police officer in the state\u2019s north yesterday. Yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 10 August 2021), police were notified that a man had allegedly impersonated a police officer and provided inaccurate information to a fast food restaurant concerning COVID-19. Following inquiries, the 44-year-old man … Continue reading “Police Civilian employee charged – Northern Region”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}